St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-07-21
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oyerarching tree! Has God turned US
out on the barren common to die! On,
no! no! moi He has not. He comes with
sympathy and kindness and love. He
understands all our grief. He sees the
height, and the depth, and the length and
the breadth of it. He is the only one that
can fully sympathize. Go and tell
Jesus.
AS long as he remembers Lazarus grave
he will stand by you in the cemetery. AS
long as he remembers his own heartbreak
he will stand by you in the laceration OF
your affections. When he forgets the
footsore way, the sleepless nights the
weary body, the exhausted mind, the aw.
full cross. the solemn grave, then he Will
forget you, but not until then.
Often when we were in trouble we sent
for our friends; but they were far away,
they could not get to us. We wrote to
them: ''Come right away" or tele-
graphed: Take the next train.n
They came at last, yet were great
while in coming, or perhaps were too late
But Christ is always near-before you,
behind you, within you. No mother
ever threw her arms around her
child with such warmth and
ecstasy Of affection as Christ has shown
towards you. Close at hand-nearer tina
the staff upon which you lean, nearer
than the cup you put to your lip nearer
than the handkerchief with which you
wipe away your tears-I preach him as
an ever-present, disappointing, com
passionate Jesus. How can you stay
away one moment from him with your
griefs? Go now. Go and tell Jesus.
1t is often that our friends have no
power to relieve US. They would very
much like to do it; but they can not dis
entangle our finances; they can not cure
our sickness and raise our dead; but
glory be to God that he to whom the dis
ciples went has all power in heaven and
on earth, and at our call he will balk our
calamities, and, at just the right time, in
the presence of an appla uding earth, and
resounding heaven, will raise our dead.
He will do it. He is mightier than Hcrad
He Is swlfter than the storm. He is
grander than the sea. He is vaster than
eternity. And every sword of Gods
omnipotence will leap from its scabbard,
and all the resources of infnity be ex
hausted, rather than that Gods child shall
not be delivered when he cries to Him for
rescue.
Suppose your child was in trouble; how
much would you endure to get him out?
you would go through any hardship. You
would say:
81 don't care what it will cost. must
get him out of that trouble"
Do you think God is not so good a father
as yous Seeing you are in trouble, and
having all power, will He not stretch out
His arm and deliver yous He will. He is
mighty to save. He can level the noun
tain and divide the sea, and can
extinguish the fire and save the
soul Not dim of eye not weak of arm,
not fee BILE of resources, but with all eter-
nifty and the universe at his feet Go and
tell Jesus. Will yous Ye whose cheeks
are wet with the night-dew of the grave;
We who can not look up; We whose hearts
are dried with the breath of a sirocco, in
the name of the religion of Jesus Christ,
which lifts every burden, and wipes away
every tear, and delivers every captive,
and lightens every darkness, 1 implore
you now, go and tell Jesus.
A. little child went with her father, a
sea-captain, to sea, and when the first
storm came the little child was very
much frightened, and in the night rushed
out of the cabin and said:
Where is father? Where is father!n
Then they told her: Father is on
Il.
Storm
The little child Immediately returned to
her berth and said: ''It's all right, for
fathers on deck"
Oh, We who are tossed and driven in this
world, up by the mountains and down by
the valleys, and at your wits end l want
you to know the Lord God is guiding the
ship. Your father is on deck He will
hrip uon ph IA Har1y ;,to ho
harbor. Trust in the Lord Go and tell
Jesus. Let me say that, if you do not,
you will have no comfort here, and you
will forever be an outcast and wan
derer. Your death will be a sorrow.
Your eternity will be disaster.
But if you go to him for pardon and
sympathy, all is well. Every thing will
brighten up, and joy will come to thy
heart and sorrow will depart; your sins
will be forgiven and your foot will touch
the upward path; and the shining mes
sengers that report above what is done
here will tell it until the great arches of
God resound with the glad tidings, if now,
with contrition and full trustfulness Of
soul, you will only go and tell Jesus.
But am oppressed, when | look over
this audience, at the prospect that some
may not take this counsel and go away I'M
blessed. l can not help asking what will
be the destiny Of these people? So 1 never
care whether it comes into the text or not
never leave my place on this platf orm
without telling them that now is the &C.
cepted time, and to some, perhaps, the last
time.
Xerxes looked off on his army There
were two million men-perhaps the finest
army ever marshaled. Xerxes rode along
the lines, reviewed them, came back,
stood on some high point, looked off upon
the two million men, and burst into tears.
At that moment, when every one supposed
he would be in the greatest exultation, he
broke down in grief They asked him why
he wept.
"Ah," he said, II weep at the thought
that so soon all this host will be dead"
So stand looking off upon this host of